The School of Law at NUI Galway will host the Irish Society of Comparative Law 5th Annual Conference on Friday 24th and Saturday 25th of May 2013 in Galway. The theme for the Irish Society of Comparative Law’s Annual Conference 2013 is ‘Comparative Public Law’. Papers placing Irish public law in comparative perspective are especially encouraged,(…)
The LL.M. in Public Law and the LL.M. in Law, Technology and Governance at the School of Law, National University of Ireland Galway will run a half day symposium on 8 March 2013 in Galway. The title of the symposium “Privacy from Birth to Death and Beyond: European and American Perspectives”. The speakers include Mr. José Maria Baño who will(…)
Fergal Davis of the Gilbert & Tobin Centre for Public Law at the University of New South Wales has posted a thought-provoking paper on SSRN. Entitled ‘The Jury as a Political Institution in an Age of Counterterrorism’, the abstract is as follows: Trial by jury is under threat. This is particularly true in the context(…)
We are delighted to welcome this Guest Post from Dr. Ciara Hackett. Ciara is a lecturer in the School of Law at NUI Galway where she also serves as Deputy Director of the LL.M in Public Law. Her research interests include corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, globalisation and marxist theories of development. In 2011, Ireland signed(…)
Durham Law School and the Faculty of Laws, Oxford, will host a one-day workshop on Economic and Social Rights in a Time of Austerity on 30 June in Oxford. Date: 30 June 2011 Venue: Oxford Faculty of Laws The last two years have seen growing evidence of the deleterious global impact of the economic crisis(…)
The Seychelles President James Michel has approved the appointment of Mrs. Mathilda Twomey as a Justice of the Court of Appeal, following the recommendation of the Constitutional Appointments Authority. The President stated in the official press release that “Mathilda Twomey will become the first female judge in the history of Seychelles. I congratulate Mrs Twomey(…)
Human Rights in Ireland is delighted to welcome this guest post from Catherine Turner, Transitional Justice Institute, School of Law, University of Ulster. You can find out more about Catherine on our guests page. Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, significant amounts of time, effort and money have been poured into(…)
